Laboratory parapsychology depends as much on method as on bold claims, and Richard Broughton’s career has revolved around that practical problem. His work links participant selection, computerised control, experimenter effects and evolutionary thinking, all aimed at understanding when psi appears strongest and why findings so often seem elusive. Broughton’s early…
Richard James Lucido is an American psychologist and author with an interest in metaphysical idealism. He has carried out experiments that provide empirical support for the idea that consciousness causes the collapse of the wave function. Career Richard James Lucido obtained a master’s degree in School and Community Psychology and…
…Hall, the Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall, and featured in popular radio programmes such as Start the Week with Richard Baker. Brown also received communications of relevance to other musicians. For instance Debussy was said to have given advice to pianist Richard Rodney Bennett concerning his performance of a…
…Feola, J. (1973). Alpha rhythm and ESP in a free-response situation. In Research in Parapsychology, ed by W.G. Roll, R.L. Morris, & J.D. Morris, 141-44. Metuchen, New Jersey, USA: Scarecrow Press. Richards, T., Kozak, L., Johnson, C., & Standish, L. (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain…
…Mrs Verrall X. Concluding reflections. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 46, 217-22. Lambert, G.W. (1953). Antoine Richard’s garden: A postscript to An Adventure. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 37, 117-54. Lambert, G.W. (1955). Antoine Richard’s garden: A postscript to An Adventure. Supplemental Note. Journal of the…
…Saducismus Triumphatus. As Owen Davies points out, Glanvill, and others such as Richard Baxter and Richard Bovet, relied ‘heavily on empirical and biblical evidence to maintain their defence … [seeking] to prove their case by the sheer weight of personal testimony’.22Davies (2010), xlii. Although Henry More would probably not have…
…Richard’s life, he did have a phobia of water when young. He reported resembled Richard in some ways, although in physical appearance, he was very different.16Stevenson (1997), vol 2, 1361-66. Charles Porter (Tlingit) As a child, Charles Porter would talk about having been killed by a spear in a clan…
…Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, and Richard Hodgson make for a ‘very strong’ case for mediumistic phenomena.50Hartshorne & Weiss (1931–35), 6.514. And earlier, in ‘Telepathy and Perception’, he again expresses his admiration for William Crookes, who conducted a series of ingenious, pioneering, and compelling experiments with the medium DD Home.51see Burks (1958),…
…the medium William Eglinton.5Gauld (1968), 138; Lavoie (2014), 22-23. In 1885 he collaborated with Richard Hodgson in exposing fraud by Blavatsky. Although not an active member, he maintained close relations with the SPR, where his abilities and character were highly appreciated. Massey died on 29 March 1905.6Barrett (1905), 95; Lavoie…
